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Listening for the Spirit: A Pentecost Journey with St. Brendan - Virtual
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Listening for the Spirit: A Pentecost Journey with St. Brendan - Virtual
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May 16, 2027
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Rev. Sharon Seyfarth Garner is a spiritual director, retreat leader, author and United Methodist pastor. She founded Belly of the Whale Spiritual Direction & Retreat Ministries in 2014 and finds great joy in helping fellow seekers nurture spiritual vitality in daily living. Sharon is an award-winning author of two books on contemplative coloring Praying with Mandalas: A Colorful, Contemplative Practice and Mandalas, Candles & Prayer: A Simply Centered Advent and anticipates the release of her third book with Upper Room Books in the summer of 2026 The Jonah Retreat: Still Enough to Know & Bold Enough to Go. Sharon has led spiritual retreats and workshops widely including on the Camino de Santiago in Spain, Spiritual Director’s International Annual Conference, Wild Goose Festival, Weird Church Camp, a school in Liberia and a women’s prison in Cleveland. In addition to her M.Div., she also holds graduate certificates in Spiritual Direction (Ignatian Spirituality Institute, John Carroll University), Diversity Management (Cleveland State University) and Ecumenical Studies (World Council of Churches). Perhaps more importantly, however, Sharon enjoys savoring this wild and wonderful gift of life by getting dirt from the garden under her fingernails, soaking in sacred silence, taking long walks, singing loudly, and seeking the world’s best wood-fired pizza (recommendations welcome!).
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What if the Spirit is speaking in ways we have not yet learned to hear? What might happen if we, too, made space to listen for the Spirit…in different languages, in the songs of creation, in silence, and perhaps in other places we might least expect? What if Pentecost is not only a story about what happened long ago, but an invitation to listen more deeply today?
This year, Pentecost and the Feast of St. Brendan the Navigator fall on the same day, offering us a beautiful invitation to explore the Holy Spirit in unexpected ways. On Pentecost, the Disciples encountered the Spirit through tongues of fire and discovered the surprising gift of understanding. Centuries later, during St. Brendan’s legendary seven-year voyage across the seas, he and his fellow monks are said to have spent each Pentecost on an island where the birds sang the Psalms. Another unexpected encounter with the Spirit. Another invitation to listen.
Join us for a contemplative evening of gentle listening and reflection as we explore the themes of Pentecost and St. Brendan’s journey. Through story, silence, and shared reflection, we will consider how these ancient encounters with the Spirit might awaken fresh insight, wonder, and vitality in our own faith journeys.
This year, Pentecost and the Feast of St. Brendan the Navigator fall on the same day, offering us a beautiful invitation to explore the Holy Spirit in unexpected ways. On Pentecost, the Disciples encountered the Spirit through tongues of fire and discovered the surprising gift of understanding. Centuries later, during St. Brendan’s legendary seven-year voyage across the seas, he and his fellow monks are said to have spent each Pentecost on an island where the birds sang the Psalms. Another unexpected encounter with the Spirit. Another invitation to listen.
Join us for a contemplative evening of gentle listening and reflection as we explore the themes of Pentecost and St. Brendan’s journey. Through story, silence, and shared reflection, we will consider how these ancient encounters with the Spirit might awaken fresh insight, wonder, and vitality in our own faith journeys.
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